Kentucky

Broadband Office

Name: Office of Broadband Development
Location: KY Infrastructure Authority
Enabling Act: KY Rev. Stat. § 224A.1118

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

1,861,552

1,541,029

62,088

258,435
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

87.1%

70.2%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$1,086,172,537

$182,769,205

$3,732,120,936

$24,635,359

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $1,086,172,537
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Drafted
Due: 9/4/23
Link: 5-Year Plan

Initial Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: 12/27/23
Link: n/a

Final Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $24,635,3593
Planning Grant: $874,236.13
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

No IIJA Middle Mile awardees

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$3,732,120,936

For Broadband
$48,900,911 (1.3%)

CPF

Total

$182,769,205

For Broadband
$182,769,205 (100%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Broadband Deployment Fund

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $300M [about 1/3 of the state funds have been allocated to date]
Grantees: Rd. 1
Rules: Application & Post-Award documents available here [additional parameters detailed in statutory section creating the broadband fund, KY Rev. Stat. § 224A.1121]

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs6

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities

Yes
Municipal Electric Utilities

Yes
Electric Cooperatives

Yes (guardrails)
Investor-Owned Utilities

Yes

Footnotes

  1. FCC National Broadband Map Data, as of December 31, 2022 (updated May 24, 2023).↩︎

  2. ACS 1-Year Data, 2021, US Census Bureau.↩︎

  3. ACLP Overview of IIJA Digital Equity Grant Programs.↩︎

  4. Broadband infrastructure is one of several applicable uses of SLFRF funds.↩︎

  5. Updated as of March 2023.↩︎

  6. Updated as of September 2022.↩︎